An interview with Yeh Jiunn Tyng, one of the founders of Gongsheng Music Festival, currently the largest event commemorating the 228 Massacre in Taiwan...
A comparative examination of the Taiwanese anti-nuclear movement in 2014 and the Japanese anti-nuclear movement in 2012. Can a transnational comparison shed light upon future paths for anti-nuclear activism in Asia?...
The release of former president Chen Shui-Bian on medical parole has been welcomed by many Taiwanese activists, but what are reactions from society at large?...
Is Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution over? This has been the question that many have asked themselves over the past month, both in Hong Kong and outside of it...
The past victory of opposition forces over the KMT in the nine-in-one elections held last Saturday came as a surprise, with independent candidate Ko Wen-Je triumphing over KMT candidate Sean Lien in vying for the position of Taipei mayor...
Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance journalist, as well as a translator. A New York native and Taiwanese-American, he has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and graduated from New York University with majors in History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature. He was Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2017 to 2018 and is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme.
